Draft Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni" Strain CX, a Plant-Pathogenic Bacterium

I-M Lee; J Shao; K D Bottner-Parker; D E Gundersen-Rindal; Y Zhao; R E Davis

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01117-15

Draft Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni" Strain CX, a Plant-Pathogenic Bacterium

Genome Announc. 2015 Oct 15;3(5):e01117-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01117-15.

Authors

I-M Lee¹, J Shao², K D Bottner-Parker², D E Gundersen-Rindal³, Y Zhao², R E Davis²

Affiliations

¹ Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA ingming.lee@ars.usda.gov.
² Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.
³ Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

"Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni" strain CX, belonging to subgroup 16SrIII-A, is a plant-pathogenic bacterium causing economically important diseases in many fruit crops. Here, we report the draft genome sequence, which consists of 598,508 bases, with a G+C content of 27.21 mol%.